Rock of Ages let our song, Praise thy saving power; Thou amidst the raging foes, Wast our sheltering tower.
Paroh’s daughter went down to bathe…She saw the basket…opened it and saw him…and a youth was crying…She took pity on him and said, “This one is from the Jewish babies.”[2] Where did this pity come from, that was so foreign to what she observed in the house of her evil father, who daily bathed in…
These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Tapes on the weekly portion: # 1320 – Sitting Next to Someone Who is Davening Sh’moneh Esria –Is it Permitted? Good Shabbos! Dissension and Lashon Harah Undermine the Zechus of the Klal The Medrash says in the beginning of Sefer…
“…and she sent her maidservant and she took it” (2:5) The Torah relates that Pharaoh’s daughter Bisya went down to bathe in the Nile River, and upon seeing a basket floating amongst the reeds, “vatishlach es amasa”; the plain meaning of the text is that she sent her “amah” – “maidservant” to bring the basket…